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Reader: Sic 'Retraction Alpaca' on Breitbart

By DYLAN BYERS

03/21/2012 05:48 PM EDT

Up until last year, Breitbart.com had something called Retracto the Correction Alpaca, a "contributor" and "senior fellow" at the website who went after news outlets demanding retractions and corrections (apparently to the tune of a theme song).

Now, after today's big faux-pas at Breitbart, a reader writes in: "Is it just me or should someone sic Retracto the Correction Alpaca on Breitbart.com?"

The video was posted at conservative websites like Breitbart.com and Glenn Beck's The Blaze, but was later marked "private" on YouTube and pulled from Breitbart.com. Why? As explained by The Blaze,"There is widespread discussion on Twitter that the person Mattera interviewed in the videos may have been a Bono impersonator."

In what is likely the vaguest retraction in recent history, Breitbart.com added an editor's note saying, "Last night, we removed an article about Bono at the request of the videographer who had provided the links to the videos upon which the article had been based."